Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford

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n nThis tetralogy, widely regarded as one of the best novels in English, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I. There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: 'Parade's End' is one of them. -W. H. Auden.n n nNot just about the war but about a whole era and its destructionn nquite simply, the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel-Mary Gordon. n nThere are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. -W. H. Auden.n n n nParade's End (including Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post) is an epic portrait of the end of an era; the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I. It follows Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician from the English gentry, who serves on the Western Front in the First World War, as did Ford Madox Ford, who wrote the tetralogy after recuperating from the psychological toll of the war. Tietjens, who shares many of the author's traits, is regarded as one of the great creations of English literature. He sees himself as the last gentleman in an England going to the dogs. n nThe work is original in several ways. First, despite being set amid the destruction of war, Ford's primary interest is in Tietjens' consciousness, not the events. Also, David Ayers observes, Parade's End is virtually al

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